BRE, a world leading organization in built environment research, has opened BRE Canada in Toronto in partnership with Blue Wilderness Management Group. BRE Canada aims to apply BRE's expertise to create more sustainable buildings, products, and communities in Canada. BRE has over 90 years of experience researching and innovating solutions to challenges in the built environment. BRE Canada will partner with other Canadian organizations to showcase best practices and new technologies for the Canadian context through a BRE Canada Innovation Park.

1. Canada NOW
has Access to a World-Leader in the Build
Environment: BRE Canada OPENS in Toronto
The global built environment is facing an array of
considerable challenges from climate change
and its effects to increased worldwide demand for
resources, overwhelming volumes of waste, and
the age of financial austerity. World leading built
environment research organization BRE has, for
the past nine decades, been on a mission to ‘build
a better world’, to make a positive difference
across the built environment which impacts
so extensively on how we all live, work, heal,
learn and generate wealth. Joining forces with
leading Canadian consultancy Blue Wilderness
Management Group Inc., BRE opens up a new
venture BRE Canada this month.
Now in Canada, BRE aims at ‘Building a Better Canada’
by applying world-class expertise to create better, safer
and more sustainable products, buildings, communities
and businesses.
President of Blue Wilderness Julie Scarcella, who will
head up the new venture said, ‘throughout its history
BRE has focused on generating the new knowledge
and expertise required to underpin solutions to the
perennial challenges and opportunities facing the
built environment. This has enabled consistent and
widespread change to occur in support of Government
policy delivery and in practice by construction
professionals. BRE Canada can pull on a vast pool of
knowledge and apply it to the specific issues faced by
the construction and business sectors in this country.’
BRE Canada will partner with other Canadian organizations to
innovate, test and showcase best practices, new methods and
materials suited to the Canadian built environment through the
creation of a BRE Canada Innovation Park. The development will
become part of a network of BRE Innovation Parks world-wide.
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For more information about BRE Canada and our
solutions visit our website www.brecanada.com,
519-599-6003.
BRE’s extensive expertise ranges from
undertaking fire prevention tests for NASA
to advising the sustainable development
strategy for the 2012 Olympics in London.
BRE also established BREEAM, the world’s
first environmental assessment method
and rating system for buildings and the
precursor of the LEED [Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design] rating scheme.
The BRE Group of companies – including
BRE Canada – are owned by the BRE Trust, a
registered charity aiming to advance knowl-
edge, innovation and communication in
the built environment for public benefit. All
profits made by the companies are used to
fund research and education in sustainable
development, which includes supporting a
number of University Centres of Excellence.
The BRE Difference:
Innovation in the Built
Environment
‘I am thrilled to be bringing the BRE
business model to Canada,’ said Julie
Scarcella, now Managing Director of
BRE Canada. ‘It builds on the BRE lega-
cy of environmental ingenuity and sets
the course for our vision to implant
sustainability into the mainstream. The
outstanding products and services we
offer are a testament to our commit-
ment to developing effective solutions.
I look forward to advancing meaningful
efforts that tackle our office climate
and clean energy challenges.’
A FEW BRE FACTS
THAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW….
• Over 20 years ago, developed BREEAM, World’s first
environmental scheme for buildings:
- Certified 230-250,000 buildings
- Registered over 1.5 million buildings
for assessment
- Trained a network of 2500+ licensed assessors
- The most widely used environmental assessment
method for buildings
• BRE is one of the World’s TOP FIVE centres
of excellence for the built environment
• BRE’s SMARTWaste suite of tools measured over
13 million tonnes of waste
• BRE’s tools have saved 4.5 million tonnes
of carbon emissions
• BRE’s test facilities include subway train and
Airbus300fuselagewhichareusedtotestpassenger
air quality
• The Prince Charles Foundation for the Built
Environment is currently building an alternative
natural house in the BRE Innovation Park
• BRE’s Innovation Park
- Launched the world’s first net zero carbon
house in 2007
- Showcases Modern Methods of Construction [MMC],
near zero carbon buildings, and 200+ different
innovative and emerging technologies
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